# Our mission and values

RARI DAO is a community-governed, decentralized autonomous organization (DAO for short) that promotes ecosystem growth and **shapes the future of the two core infrastructure layers:**

1. **Rarible Protocol – open-source and free-to-use infrastructure for building** NFT apps and experiences, such as marketplaces, wallets, analytics and more. 
2. **RARI Chain – a secure and low-cost Ethereum L3 chain** that guarantees royalty payments through enforcement on the node level.

We are committed to broadening the NFT use case horizon by creating a creator-centric and fully decentralized robust ecosystem. 

**RARI DAO governs the following areas under its mandate:**

* RARI DAO treasury (approving budgets, incentive programs, allocating grants, and more)
* Ecosystem growth of the two products in the RARI ecosystem: Rarirble Protocol and the RARI Chain

This vision is being brought to life through a robust governance architecture that lets anyone get involved in this decision-making by locking $RARI to exercise your voting rights. 

### Core values

The guiding, core values of the RARI DAO are the following:

**Autonomy**

* Prioritized resource allocation for autonomous mechanisms rather than programs reliant on human execution
* Governance minimization
* Algorithms rather than bloated DAO operations run by humans

**Efficiency & Accountability**

* Sharp focus on optimizing available resources
* Accountable parties, measurable deliverables and milestones for every proposal

**Long Term Sustainability**

* Strategic decision making for the long term
* Zero tolerance for short-term profit seeking
* Reinvesting and compounding value (vs. external extraction)